Brooklyn BookBeat: Author of humorous national bestseller to speak at Brooklyn By The Book
Maria Semple, author of national bestseller “Where’d You Go, Bernadette,” has recently released her book in paperback (Back Bay Books; April 2, 2013), and is slated to speak in Brooklyn in early May. One of 2012’s most hilarious books, this dazzling satire was featured on numerous best-of lists, including the Top 10 Fiction Books of Time, People, and Janet Maslin.
“Where’d You Go, Bernadette” is about the perils of hyperactive modern parenting, the effects of technology on the family, and Bee, a quirky daughter and her search for her beloved, brilliant, misanthropic mother, Bernadette. It is also an uproarious send-up of Semple’s own once hated, now adored adopted town of Seattle and of the devoted Bee’s epistolary hunt for her much-loved, off-kilter mother.
It is a comic delight that has added Semple’s name to the list of great literary satirists of our time. Storytelling this good can’t be confined to the page. Annapurna Pictures and Color Force have secured the feature film rights to “Where’d You Go, Bernadette.”